923832 - You can't save a base64 encoded image through drag and drop

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel]

Attachment: base64img.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131004030203

Steps to reproduce:

* Open the attached "base64img.html" page
* Drag and drop the image to your desktop


Actual results:

The image is saved as some kind of base64 encoded link.


Expected results:

The image should be saved as a proper image (a real png image in this case).

If you don't drag and drop and instead right click on the image and choose "Save image as..." you will have a ordinary image file, which makes the drag and drop behavior a bit inconsistent.

I came across this when I right clicked a canvas and chose "View image". What is shown then is base64 encoded.

Comment 1

[KLB]

Although I couldn't drag and drop any images to my desktop, I could drag and drop normal images to a folder in Windows Explorer but was still unable to drag and drop the base64 test image.

I tried this using Google Chrome and it was able to save the base64 test image as a normal PNG file by simply draging and dropping it into my Windows Explorer folder.

Bug was reported using FF27 and I tested it on FF24 so I've changed the version flag to trunk.

Comment 2

[dadazhu_ashi]

Same problem here.